{"id":2377,"date":"2012-08-31T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T03:57:38","slug":"digital-designs-m4-mono-block-amplifier-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-m4-mono-block-amplifier-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Designs M4 Mono-Block Amplifier Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its not very often you see a company re-run a discontinued product,\u00a0in fact I can&#8217;t remember any company in the car audio industry ever doing so. The common trend is to make a new replacement model and never speak of the last model like it never\u00a0existed, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddaudio.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs<\/a><\/strong> has gone against the grain here and re-released the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_M4_Discontinued_2014_2015_\" target=\"_blank\">M4<\/a><\/strong> even after they had released the mighty <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_M4a_Discontinued_2014_2015_\" target=\"_blank\">M4a<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2393\" title=\"M4_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_1-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might be sitting there wondering why they would do so when they have already released its\u00a0successor, well the answer is simple! <strong>Digital Designs<\/strong> had so much success with the <strong>M4<\/strong> customers keep on demanding it came back into production and being the good sports they are they obliged!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2394\" title=\"M4_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_2-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reliability of this unit is just astonishing as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/thirty-years.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley &#8216;MAD BASS&#8217; Burell<\/a><\/strong> has had the one we are currently running in <strong>ABTEC1<\/strong> for almost four years and also with numerous amounts of Sub-Woofers and ohm loads on it too! The <strong>M4<\/strong> produces a nice clean signal and the power output is more than enough for most set-ups with 3,200w RMS on 1 Ohm @ 12volts and 5,000w RMS on 1 Ohm @ 14volts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2395\" title=\"M4_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_3-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bridged NA<br \/>\nChannels 1<br \/>\nCont Power at 1 Ohm 3,200W x 1 @ 12v, 5,000W x 1 @ 14.v<br \/>\nCrossover Frequency LPF; 20Hz-200Hz \/ SSF; 10HZ-50Hz<br \/>\nCrossover Slope 24dB\/OCT<br \/>\nDimensions (Inches) 22L x 9.13W x 2.5H<br \/>\nDimensions (Metric) 558.8L x 231.90W x 63.5H<br \/>\nDynamic Power 7,000 Watts @ 14.4v<br \/>\nEfficiency Thru Output 87%<br \/>\nFrequency Response 15Hz-270Hz<br \/>\nInput Sensitivity 5V-0.15V<br \/>\nModel M4<br \/>\nShipping Weight 28lbs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2397\" title=\"M4_4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_4.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/M4_4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have personally had extensive use of the <strong>M4<\/strong> over the last 8 months and at times put extreme loads and gain on it at times (1\/2 Ohm&#8217;s) with out it ever overheating.<\/p>\n<p>In fact I have run a 1 x <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-z18-product-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">DD-Z18<\/a><\/strong>, 1 x <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_Z12_2\" target=\"_blank\">DD- Z12<\/a><\/strong>, 1 x <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_9515h_D2\" target=\"_blank\">DD-9512<\/a><\/strong>, 1 x <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_3518e_D2\" target=\"_blank\">DD-3518<\/a><\/strong>, 4 x <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_SW6_5\" target=\"_blank\">DD-SW-6.5&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> and the list goes on and on!<\/p>\n<p>Overall this has to be one of the best amp&#8217;s I&#8217;ve ever had the chance to work with, second to none with the exception of its big brother the mighty <strong>M4a<\/strong> but that is completely different review in itself!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not very often you see a company re-run a discontinued product,\u00a0in fact I can&#8217;t remember any company in the car audio industry ever doing so. The common trend is to make a new replacement model and never speak of the last model like it never\u00a0existed, Digital Designs has gone against the grain here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}